ode to my window

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

most people that have been to my apartment would say that i have very nice abode.

16 foot ceilings, tons of exposed brick, great location, an open floor plan, *basically* right on the water and i have a big deck that gets all the afternoon sun.

sounds nice right?

it is! except for one little thing...

there is only one window, ONE window.

and that window is a mere 3 feet by 3 feet, surrounded by brick - and doesn't open.

exhibit A

hey there little guy, i still love you - thanks for sharing the sun with me.

but now that i shared my small window with the internet i sure hope my window doesn't start to get window envy.

the next thing i know my itty bitty window is going to be all glaring at bigger windows and picking fights.

there will be broken glass everywhere!! the pane, the pane!*

....

so you may wonder how my apartment gets additional sunlight. well my roommate's bedroom has a window to the hallway outside our apartment which then has a window to the real outdoors. so she gets filtered light from that. it actually gets pretty bright in her room.then there's my bedroom.

my bedroom has a window - that looks into my kitchen - which strains to absorb a bit of the sunlight that shines through exhibit A. it's cool because i'm really a vampire and don't like natural light.i'm really not complaining though, - i do like my apartment! (see the aforementioned pros) i just find it hilarious.

on a positive note. when hurricane lake erie finally blows through the cleve i only have one window to worry about boarding up. high five!

*this maybe the corniest joke i have ever told in my life and i love it.

I have the same problem - the only window in my room goes to the hallway - so I only get fake light. I have a great few of downtown and the river - but some sunlight wouldn't kill me. I'm beginning to turn emo.

oh wow... it does sound super nice... but i don't know if i could deal with just the one window! my bedroom has FOUR - nearly more space taken up by windows than by walls. my dining room is windows on 2 sides, and my living room has a double glass door out to my balcony.

And my old place had windows, but none of them were able to catch much light through the trees. Now I'm in my new place, and I have a huge picture window and the bedroom gets tons of sun. I keep going back to check to see if I left the light on.

And hey, if you're only going to have one window, I think that's a super one to have.

your one window and my gazillion windows need to find a happy medium. i feel like i have waaaay too many sometimes. lots of blinds to open and close each day, lots of windows to make sure are closed if it's going to rain, etc.

Aww, little window! I love the pane joke (hopefully that won't happen) and your apartment sounds cool, minus the whole natural light thing. When I was looking at apartments, I found a lot of them only had a few windows. It's weird.

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Some would say I'm a 34-year-old marketing professional who has been blogging about her life in Cleveland since '08. I would say I love cooking, drinking bubbles and wearing black. My Mom (and new husband) would say I'm just nuts.